A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a Burnaby man facing money laundering charges after a cross-border investigation into a Vietnamese organized crime group trafficking cocaine and ecstasy across North America.
Cong Dinh, 26, is believed to have fled B.C. for Vietnam after his Goring Street home was raided by the RCMP in connection with the joint U.S.-Canada investigation.
RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said that Dinh has been charged with five counts of laundering the ... Read More …

The RCMP is looking for a suspect after a female student was attacked while jogging in Pacific Spirit Regional Park April 1.
The 18-year old was in the park, near trail three, between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. when she was approached by an unknown aboriginal male who asked her what time it was, Sgt. PeterThiessen said.
“The aboriginal male suddenly grabbed her and threw her to the ground. The suspect quickly left the scene on ... Read More …

Burnaby RCMP is investigating a third shooting in just 10 days.
The latest “shots fired” incident occurred around 7 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Old Orchard Shopping Complex, at the corner of Willingdon and Kingsway.
“At this stage it appears to be a gang-motivated shooting between peripheral players believed to be involved in the drug trade,” Sgt. Peter Thiessen said in a news release.
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Mission RCMP want to talk to anyone with information about a shooting that took place sometime between late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
A man suffering frmo a gunshot wound to his left hand had been dropped off at Mission Memorial Hospital just before 2 a.m. Monday.
The victim, a 20-year-old Mission resident who is known to police, is not cooperating with investigators.
The man claimed he was approached by four males in Centennial ... Read More …

A Metro Vancouver gangster, who lives in both Langley and Abbotsford was stabbed early Thursday at a gas station on 200th Ave.
RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said the 37-year-old is expected to recover. His identity was not revealed. He was found slumped in his pick-up truck, Thiessen said.
Langley RCMP major crime is investigating.
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When “multiple” gunmen opened fire at three men arriving at a Surrey home Tuesday night, only one of them was wounded.
Police are saying they don’t know if victim Harm Gill was even the intended target. The other two, who were “associated” to the house in the 8800-block of 131 Street, were also well-known to police.
All three were associates of the late Sandip (Dip) Duhre. The shooting took place in the driveway of the ... Read More …

RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen has confirmed the man shot in the 8800-block of 131 Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday was known to police.
The 28-year-old victim, who is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries, did not live in the house, but was arriving in a vehicle when gunmen opened fire.
He was with two other men when “multiple” gunmen ambushed them as they arrived, Thiessen said. The two other men were associated to the house.... Read More …

There was a nother disturbing arson fire Friday linked to a list of names illegally access by a former ICBC employee last summer.
This time, a West Vancouver house owned until last week by a former police chief was set on fire about 2:40 a.m.
The former chief, Scott Armstrong, no longer lived in the house in the 1000-block of Lawson Avenue. But he was still showing as an owner on the B.C. Assessment records, ... Read More …

The last two wanted men charged in a Richmond Dial-a-Dope case have surrendered to police.
Twenty-one year old Jinagh Navas-Rivas (above left) and Vinh Hoang David Le, 25, were arrested without incident Thursday, RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said.
He said Richmond RCMP located Navas-Rivas, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s former foster son, about 2:00pm and were successful in communicating with him.
“As a result of that communication Navas-Rivas surrendered himself to investigators at an undisclosed location ... Read More …

One of the suspects in a Richmond drug and guns case turned himself in Friday and appeared in Richmond Provincial Court.
Willie Sing Cheung Truong, 23, who is facing a single trafficking count. He was released on conditions and will appear again on Jan. 5.
Meanwhile police are still looking for the former foster son of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Jinagh Navas-Rivas, who is wanted on one gun charge and two trafficking charges in connetion ... Read More …

On Nov. 19, 2011, Jinagh Navas-Rivas was on the stage with his foster dad Gregor Robertson, celebrating the Vancouver mayor’s election victory.
The day before, according to allegations contained in court documents, Navas-Rivas, 21, was illegally in possession of a 22-calibre Ruger firearm.
The young man who lived with Robertson’s family for two years is also facing two counts of cocaine trafficking in both Richmond and Vancouver in November and December 2010.
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RCMP investigators are probing the death of an adult male found deceased beside the Lougheed Highway Friday morning.
Sgt. Peter Thiessen said it is too soon to say if the man is the victim of foul play.
An autopsy will be done over the next day or so, he said. The photo here shows the site where the body was found.
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Murder victim Maple Batalia will be remembered by family, friends and the community with a candlelight vigil in Surrey’s Holland Park Friday at 7 p.m.
I spoke with her devastated mother Sarbjit briefly Thursday who urged everyone to help police find her daughter’s killer.
Maple was gunned down in the parkade beside Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus. She had been studying late and walked towards her car just after 1 a.m. when she was shot ... Read More …

A man with gang links was shot several times in the 2700-block of Barnet Highway in Coquitlam Wednesday afternoon. Sgt. Peter Thiessen said the man is expected to survive.
He is well-known to policing agencies across the Lower Mainland, Thiessen said. And while it is too early to say for sure what the motive behind the brazen daylight shooting is, investigators believe “this is in fact gang-related at some level,” Thiessen said.
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Harry Batalia and his family are devastated by the murder of his 19-year-old daughter Maple.
The aspiring actress/model was gunned down in the parkade beside SFU’s Surrey campus and just a few blocks from her family home Wednesday morning.
Her dad thinks it might have something to do with a former boyfriend who had been bothering her. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has not named a suspect or made an arrest, but is working hard ... Read More …